Portreath Incline (Raised Lower Section Only)

PORTREATH SW 64 NE 1/228 Portreath Incline (raised lower section only)

GV II Part of tramroad incline. 1809, forming the final descent of a tramroad running from Carn Brea mining area to Portreath Harbour. Retaining walls of coursed granite and uncoursed killas rubble with granite dressings. North-south axis approx. 200 metres long, crossing a public road by a semicircular bridge which has granite voussoirs, shallow battered buttresses, a simple band and a parapet with brick coping, and slightly constricted near the bottom where it crosses a stream by a smaller but similar bridge. History: one of the few surviving built structures of the horse-drawn tramway by which the mine engines were supplied with fuel before the introduction of steam-powered locomotives; a prominent feature of the landscape in Portreath. Reference: Michael Tangye Portreath (1968).

Listing NGR: SW6571645180